The “fur died at Pulse” claim was a hoax for attention, and here’s how the troll did it.

by Patch O'Furr

After the shooting tragedy at Pulse in Orlando, claims came out that a fellow furry named “Kodakoda Coyote” was among the victims. I thought, how sad… people need to hear. I did basic checking and saw a FurAffinity account for that name. There was no content but the name was 4 years old and not obviously recent. It was filling with comments of sympathy from other furs.

The original claims came from two places at the same time. (1) A tweet from “SebastianLoFR” and (2) a Reddit comment from “Deg The Wolf“. Both seemed to be established accounts from separate people.

I took the bait like a dummy. The “Kodakoda” story went out in record time for this site. It got a lot of sharing. I doggedly repeated the two-source thing for a bit. The sympathy came before I posted, but my article spread the hoax a little – thanks for taking me to school, all of you.

I’m getting many people saying this is fake based on Sebastian on Twitter acting like a moron. Your account doesn’t strike me as a troll, at all. Would it be too much to ask you for a little verification, if only to make sure your friend is honored? I hope you’re OK.

I can try to find something I guess. Someone asked me if it was koda but it wasn’t him. So i’ll try and find something if that helps…kinda not cool that people wanna say my dead friend doesn’t exist. He never had much fan art comissioned. But i’ll look.

Thanks! I’m glad that some fucking asshole on Twitter isn’t going to get to dishonor your friend. Let’s prove those people wrong so you don’t have to deal with your loss this way. I’ll check in with you tomorrow if I don’t hear from you first.

“The Freedom Family has a tradition of coming together in times of adversity. Orlando has fallen victim to a terrible tragedy, a senseless shooting, and an act that left us with an unprecedented amount of casualties. It is with great sorrow to inform everyone that one of Freedom’s own has lost his life in this terrible attack. We remember him for his Honor, and Excellence; with our Tradition.

I have to look it up again. Also, does I have to give his fur name? I would rather people know him by his real name. I will look for the fur name. I just know he wasn’t super open about being a furry. Not out of shame or anything, just wasn’t. So i don’t think he has it on social media.

Yup, it’s essential for a furry story! I’ll make sure his real name isn’t fully given and won’t use his real picture, only the furry ones you send – that’s how I typically post about people. I’m so happy to honor him and not let him be forgotten, and I hope this makes you feel a little less sad. -hugs-

It does. I haven’t done much research on where he’s known on the internet. But his fur name was Johnny FluffyTail. I’ll keep looking, again he wasn’t very open about it. I met him/knew him irl so I didn’t have him added on like furaffinity, etc. I asked a friend who told me his fur name.

This is very helpful, I did find his FA but it seems like his friends don’t know yet 🙁 Poor guy. I’ll make an extra nice post with the info to let them know. I’ll be careful not to add too many details that might reveal fur stuff to his RL friends. What was he like in high school?

Oh man. Nicest guy you’ll ever meet. A bit shy, but once he opened up to you he was a whole different person. Always had a smile on his face, always brought happiness to his friends. There was never a dull moment with the guy. Straight A student. Gamer at heart.

Thanks so much for this, and I will actually put in a link so people can send flowers to his family as they are asking on Facebook with his name. I’ll just ask that they not reveal it’s coming from furs. Are you going to be part of the vigil?

Oh man, are you going tonight or tomorrow? Reason I ask is if you go tonight, please send me pics and I’ll hold the post so I can put it out as breaking news. Or if you go tomorrow, I’ll put it out right away so I can put in the info about sending flowers, then you can get pics of the flowers with the family for the senders to see. Or will you go to both?

I’ll be going tonight. I can’t do both. I don’t think I have strength to do it again. I’m shaky now just thinking about it. But I have friends who are picking me up. I’ll try to take pics, if not, i’ll get them from other people. I don’t know if I’ll be able to do much other than cry and pray that he’s having fun in heaven. (My apologies if you aren’t religious)

It’s fine, you don’t have to pay, I’ve already paid for some for their family. I’m honestly glad my friends are taking me, as much as I wanna go, I wouldn’t be able to drive with the state i’m in. Too shaky/teary to drive ya know? Thank you for the offer though.

A Bouquet of Roses, because he loved the phrase “A rose by any other name is just as sweet.” Damn I miss that guy. If it were anyone else he would’ve had me smiling and laughing even if I was crying. He always found a way.

Wow, they must really like you to invite you to their private event. I’m glad you touched their lives that much. How did his boyfriend take it? Sorry to be a pest, since there’s no pics I just wanted to add a different detail to wrap up the story for tomorrow.

Hey it’s alright. Giving more details is the least I can do. His boyfriend…was confirmed dead from what I heard. I believe his name was drew…I didn’t know drew as well, but was a good kid. Loved Juan more than anything.

I’ll see if I can make it to drew’s. Due to financial troubles, I can’t take too many days off of work…Also, i’m fine now. The vigil was hard, but i’m okay. I know Juan would want me to cheer up and remember the good times. Not his death.

Wow so Drew must have been very special to get two funerals. The news says his service is with Juan. Well thanks for letting me interview you seb and do cheer up. The article about this is going out soon.

Also, if I was seb, don’t you think I would’ve deleted all my accounts related to this story? Not just twitter. I’d like to understand why you think i’m this seb guy. Cause I went to the article and clicked the link for seb and nothing came up.

Yeah you deleted Sebastian. The “Eduardo” account had really shitty fake writing, and the name “Johnny Fluffytail” is dumb as shit too. Trolling for attention like this, and sending hugs to yourself from alts, how desperate can you get?

You made up some bullshit to use other people’s tragedy, and made up a bunch of fake internet accounts for it. Way to go! Oooh, you even bought “roses”. LOL it’s too late to pretend you don’t know that account after you already let out a detail from it. Just wondering at what point do you stop faking?

Gross. I’m not surprised if this douche was playing along as much as me but I also wouldn’t be surprised if they were just very stupid. So don’t go witch hunting now by relying on anything above, including the name “Deg Ookami”. There are Facebook accounts with a real person with the name. That person has a lot of pics and SebastianLoFR has a lot of face pics too but they aren’t the same person. One thing that the accounts (including the likely alts) do have in common is a lot of posts about gaming with the same games, like Overwatch.

Deg claimed to be so intimate that he was invited to a special private family event. He told me “Someone asked me if it was koda but it wasn’t him”, and gave the ridiculous “Johnny FluffyTail” name. Compare those lies to this:

I actually never knew him on a personal level. I'm sorry, I wish I could be of more assistance...

I did this same junk, I was so mad. I told a furry friend some fur named Koda passed away at Pse. He apparently had met a Koda down there once, just an acquaintance but it was still sad to think he was lost until I found out otherwise.

Also thanks for doing all this research and digging, it was nice to have a solid source to read instead of the snapshots from pissed off tweets that I was finding.

I fell for it too I’m ashamed to say. (>_<) Playing on the loss of others by using fake accounts making it seem to the general populace as if Furs only care about their own, is lower than whale shite on the bottom of the ocean. I honestly don't know how these no-count Trolltards live with themselves causing the pain they do. (-_-;)